NASA admits they can’t afford to get humans to Mars

National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has announced yesterday that they cannot afford to achieve to get humans to Mars.

In the quest to evacuate humans from Earth to Mars, series of studies has casted if humans can live in the red planet, studies suggested “chances” but the questions is would space agency could bring us to the so-called second home?

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For years, NASA has been talking about getting humans to Mars, and continues to provide updated plans for getting there.

Unfortunately, though, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William H. Gerstenmaier, just announced that the agency can’t achieve the Mars goal on its current budget.

“I can’t put a date on humans on Mars, and the reason really is the other piece is, at the budget levels we described, this roughly 2 percent increase, we don’t have the surface systems available for Mars,” Gerstenmaier said during a propulsion meeting of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics on Wednesday.

“And that entry, descent, and landing is a huge challenge for us for Mars,” he said.

Speaking on the mission, the SLS rocket and Orion craft have cost the agency a lot. As a result, NASA hasn’t even been able to begin designing vehicles to land on Mars or ascend from the surface.

According to reports, the space agency’s next moves will depend on funding, but Gerstenmaier indicated the agency might be interested in a Moon exploration mission – one that is more extensive than the current plan to build the Deep Space Gateway in the Moon’s orbit.

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He said beyond just being a launching pad for further space exploration, the gateway could “support an extensive moon surface program.”

As of tge moment, the humans’ Red Planet dreams, it isn’t just up to NASA. Getting humans to Mars is a team effort. Agencies like NASA are really at the mercy of political moods and budgetary restraints, so they need to do as much as they can with what resources are there.

One way they can maximize impact is to partner with private companies.

Meanwhile, this month Elon Musk announced we might be getting an update about the SpaceX Mars mission in September at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Australia.

As of now, though, SpaceX has set a deadline of 2018 for an unmanned Mars mission and 2025 for a manned mission. Both Boeing and Blue Origin are also planning to put humans on Mars.

However, with the latest pronouncement of US second top leader it may turn out that the “we”.

US Vice President Pence’s statement about putting American boots on Mars is the larger American “we,” and not the government or NASA, says online report.